Sample Sentences forlaborious (auto-selected)
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We spent many laborious hours on the project.laborious = difficult
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"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. (source)laboriously = with difficulty
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This laborious exercise enabled him to read the day's newspapers online.† (source)
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Even in these ordinary gestures, Laila noted a laborious quality to his movements.† (source)
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After my laborious conquest, I've distanced myself a little from the situation, but you mustn't think my love has cooled.† (source)
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Outside, Tyrion swallowed a lungful of the cold morning air and began his laborious descent of the steep stone steps that corkscrewed around the exterior of the library tower.† (source)
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The 17 hours of laborious, tedious, painstaking operating on such tiny patients had progressed well, all things considered.† (source)
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It breathed slowly, laboriously, making a wet sound with each breath.† (source)
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She read and took notes incessantly, mastering facts with painful laboriousness, but never flinching from her self-imposed task.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The terrific locomotive, as beautiful as any ship, breathed with unlaborious fatigue at the rail-head.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlaborious means not and reverses the meaning of laborious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I could become her biographer, be drawn into her life, and into excuses for her or blame of her, but that seemed like an impractical, laborious, and failing substitute for what I had missed in the last twenty-two years.† (source)
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The astonished survivors, the lucky ones, were hauling themselves laboriously from the rubble.† (source)
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She wondered if he did not understand the laboriousness of the smile with which she listened to Kennicott's account of the "good one he had on Carrie," that marital, coyly improper, ten-times-told tale of how she had forgotten to attend to Hugh because she was "all het up pounding the box"—which may be translated as "eagerly playing the piano."† (source)
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Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touching and appealing monitor without — to whom I will briefly refer as Miss W. — I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted — now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months.† (source)
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So he taught himself Greek at the age of thirty-five and began the laborious job of translating the Bible from the ancient Greek version into German.† (source)
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She staggers, falls to the ground, then rises laboriously.† (source)
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